James is an actor, content creator and comedian from Texas, now living in Los Angeles. Formerly based in NYC, he performed improv and sketch comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade, The PIT and the Magnet Theater for 10 years. He performed on UCB's Maude Night with the sketch team Night Eaters and with sketch duo Coker & Stratton.
James has recently gained a following as a Motorsport content creator, having amassed 95K followers on Instagram and 64K followers on TikTok. His videos have been featured on accounts for ESPN F1, ESPNW, Sports Illustrated F1, and Motorsport.com. Formerly, James was a content creator for the Sports Illustrated Formula 1 channels and for Formula E Season 10. He is currently co-host of the WTF1 Podcast with Haydon Gullis.
As an actor, he has appeared on Mythic Quest, American Horror Stories, Reasonable Doubt, 13 Reasons Why, 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and in videos for Funny Or Die, Mashable, Above Average, The Kicker and MTV. You can also hear him in various roles in the Audible original series 64th Man with John Cena. James' writing credits include the Audible Original Center of the YOUniverse starring Tituss Burgess and Jane Krakowski (2023), Crypto Boyz (2019, with UCB Comedy and Nerdist), Tailgating With (2017, with Broadway Video), the web series Trump Bros (2016-2017), as well as the New York Television Festival pilots The Other Kennedys (2015) and Classless (2013). From 2018-2021, he was a spokesperson in a national campaign for Spectrum and Spectrum Mobile. You can see him in the upcoming Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck film Freaky Tales, and in upcoming seasons of CBS’ Matlock and ABC’s 9-1-1. Additionally, James has made branded content for brands such as Sbarro and Drumstick and currently works as a brand social content creator for SoFi.